Bygone Walla Walla: vintage images of the City and County (and beyond), collected by Joe Drazan

BYGONE WALLA WALLA PROJECT BY JOE DRAZAN is a local non-profit, non-commercial effort to build and share a visual history of Walla Walla. Use SEARCH box or the INDEX, or just scroll. CLICK ON IMAGES TO ENLARGE; right click & open in new tab for even LARGER view. WANTED! Your old snapshots, slides, or negatives of Walla Walla area places and events to share in this project, please contact me to get them scanned in; over 500 individuals have so far. CONTACT me; skippycat3@charter.net. c2025

Thursday, February 28, 2019

Wheat harvest near Milton-Freewater in July 1925. Photos courtesy of Jan Hansen.


 









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Wednesday, February 27, 2019

Dainty Maid Bakery opened in June 1947, and was gone by 1953.







Bill Phelps

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Monday, February 25, 2019

Penitentiary guards with Warden Edmiston (presumably front and center), ca1889.


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Sunday, February 24, 2019

Thrifty was much much more than a drug store. File photos of April 1967 courtesy of the Union-Bulletin.













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Saturday, February 23, 2019

Whitman College's secondary school program, the Academy, was renamed Pearson's Academy from 1909 to 1912 before being abandoned.

The Academy building on Boyer Avenue across from Memorial Hall was built in 1883 and called College Hall. It was razed in 1918.


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Friday, February 22, 2019

100 years ago from the pages of the Walla Walla Union newspaper (February 1919, part 2). Click on images to enlarge.


























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A librarian at Whitman College, 1972-2005; retired.
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